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Previewing Changes

As you become comfortable with the refactoring tools, you might decide to simply let them do their thing without much oversight on your part. However, if you are like most developers, no one (or no tool) touches your code without your consent. Fortunately for us, the refactoring tools provide a preview option. This option lets you follow the tool through its changes and, in turn, accept or reject a given change.

The Preview Changes dialog box is invoked as an option (check box) on a given refactoring operation (or, in the case of a smart tag, from a second menu item on the smart tag menu). Figure 10.6 provides an example of selecting the Preview Reference Changes option from the Rename refactor operation.

Figure 10.6 Invoking ...